Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-10-29

her an Independence Of character that will
qualify her To build her own home and main
tain IL In happiness that requires no sug-
mehtatlon from any Of our rougher sex That
Young man or woman can by the right lit
erary aud moral Improvement OF the snare
Ten minutes here or there in every day rise
mead and shoulders in prosperity, and char
scter, and influence above the loungers who
READ nothing or read that which bedwarfs.
see all the forests of good American litera-
ture dripping with honey. Why pick up the
honey-combs that have in them the fiery bees
which will citing you with an eternal poison
while you taste it!
INFLUENCES FOR GOOD.
One oook NAV for you or me decide every
thing for this world or the next. Ii was a
turning point with me when in Wynkoop's g
bookstore, Syracuse, one day / picked up a
DOCK called The Beauties Of Ruskin." 1t was
only book OF extracts, but it was all pure
money, and was not satisfied until had pur-
chased all his works, at that time expensive
beyond an easy capacity to own them, and
wnat a heaven | went through in reading his
Seven Lamps of Architecture" and his
stones OF Venice. F" II Is impossible for me TO
describe except by saying that it gave me a
rapture for good books and an everlasting dis
gust Tor decrepit or immoral books that will
last me while my immortal soul lasts. All
around the church and the world to-day there
are busy hives of intelligence occupied by
authors and authoresses from whose pens drop
. distillation which Is the very nectar of heav-
en-, and why will you thrust your rod of inquis-
itiveness into the deathful saccharine of per-
ditionl
Stimulating liquids also come into the cate
CORY Of Temptations delicious but deathfuL
You say: II can not bear the taste of intOxi-
eating liduor, and how any man can like 1t is
to me an amazement" Well, then it is no
credit to you that YOU do not take it Do not
brag about your total abstinence, because it is
not from any principle that you reject alcohol
ism, but for the same reason that you reject
certain styles of food-you simply don't like
the taste of them. But mAltitudes of people
have q natural fondness for all kinds of intox.
icant They like IL so much that il makes
them smack their lips to look at It They are
dyspeptic, and they take it to aid digestion,
or they are annoyed BY insomnia, and they
take 1t to produce sleep, or they are troubled,
and they take IL to make them oblivious, or
they feel good, and they must Gel citrate their
hillarity.
< LIQUORS. ONLY SURE CURE.
They begin with mint julep sucked through
two straws on the Long Branch piazza and
end In the ditch, taking from a jug a liquid
half kerosene and half whisky. They not
oriy like it, but il is an al cousuming passion
of body, mind md soul, and after while
cost the temporal and eternal destruction of
themselves. and all their families and the
whole human race. They would say: II am
sorry 1t Is going to cost me and nv family and
the worlds population so very much, but here
1t goes TO my lips and now let IL roll over my
parched tongue and down my heated throat
the sweetest the most inspiring the most
rarturous thing that ever thrilled mortal OF
Immortal" To cure the habit before it comes
to its last stages, various plans were tried In
olden times This plan was recommended In
the books: When man wanted to reform he
put shot or bullets into the cup or glass of
strong drink-one additional shot or bullet
each day, that displaced so much liquor. Bull
let added day by day, of course the liquor be-
came less and less until the bullets would en-
tirely ill up the glass and there was no room
for the liquid, and by that time 1t was said
the inebriate would be cured. Whether any
one ever was cured in that way know not,
but BY long experiment It is found that the
only way is to stop short off, and when 4 man
does that he needs God to help him. And
there have been more cases than you can
count when God has so helped the man that
he quit forever, and could count a score OF
them here too day, some of them pillars in the
house of God.
SUGGESTIVE NAMES CHOSEN.
One would suppose that men would take
warning from some of the ominous names
given to the intOXicants, and stand of from
the devastating influence. You have noticed
for instance that some Of the restaurants are
called "The Shades" typical of the fact that
10 puts a mans reputation is the shade and
his mroals in the shade, ana his prosperity in
the shade, and his wife and children in the
shade, and his immortal destinv in the shade.
Now, l find on some of the liquor signs in
all our cities the words 'Oid Crow nightly
suggestive of a carcass and the filthy raven
that swOops upon it 'Old Crowr' Men and
women without numbers slain of rum but un-
buried, and this evil is peclling at their glazed
apA tha'r tad ahaar and
pecking at their destroyed manhood and wo-
manhood, thrusting beak and claw into the
mortal remains of what was once glOriouslv
alive but now morally dead. sold Crowr'
But alas, how many take no warning. They
mske me think Of Cesar on his way to as
sassinatiOn fearing nothing; though his statue
in the hall crashed into fragments at his feet,
and a scroll containing the names Of the con-
spirators was thrust into his hands, yet walk
ing right on TO meet the dagger that was 70
take his life. This iufatuation OF strong
drink is so mighty in many man that though
his fortunes are crashing. and his health ia
crashing, and his domestic interests are crash
ing, and we hand him a long scroll contain
ing the names of perils that await him, he
goes straight on to physical and mental and
moral assassin alton. In proportion as any
style cf alcoholism Is pleasant to your taste,
and stimulating TO your nerves, and for time
delightful to all your physical and mental con-
Is Tue DtTll hCluCLuuCi
Jonathan and the forbidden honey in the
woods OF Bethaven.
THE HUNGER FOR GAMING.
Furthermore, the gamster's indulge nee
must be put in the list Of temptations de-
licious but destructive. l have crossed the
ocean eight times, and always one OF the best
rooms has, from morning till late at night
been given up to gambling practices l heard
of many men who went on board with enough
money for European excursion who landed
without enough money to get their baggage
up to the hotel or railroad station. To many
there Is q complete fascination in games OF
hazard or the risking Of money on possibilities.
1t seems as natural for them to bet as 10 eat
Indeed the hunger for food is often over
powered with the hunger for wagers, as In the
case of Lord Sandwich, persistent gambler,
who not being willing to leave the dice table
long enough for the taking Of food, invented
q preparation of food that he could take with.
out stopping the game; namely, slice ol
beef between two slices OF bread, which was
named after Lord Sandwich. IL is absurd fol
those OF us who have never felt the fascina
ton of the wager to speak slightingly OF the
temptation. Il has slain multitude OF in
tellectual and moral giants-men and women
stronger than. yeu o. I. Down under II!
power. went glorious Oliver Goldsmith, and
Gibbon the historian, and Charles FOX tnt
-statesmap, and in olden times famous
senators OF. the United States, who used to bt
as regularly at the gambling house all nigh
as they were IN the halls Of legislation BY day
o, the tragedies of the faro table know
persons who began with q slight stake in :
iady,s parlor and ended with the suicide
pistol at Monte Carlo. They played with the
square pieces OF bone with black marks ol
them. not knowing that Satan was playing fo
their bones at the same time and was sure Z
sweep all the stakes of on his side OF the table
CARD PLAYING ALSO WRONG.
The last New York legislature sanctioned
the mighty evil last spring BY passing Q law